Brucd's Teal

--- craig o'donnell <dadadata@f...> wrote:
> >Teal with 1/2" panels, my God, that's huge overkill.

To say the least! Bending 1/4" was a bit of a
struggle. 1/2" would be really tough, if not impossible.
I bit the bullet and drove to Berkeley, MacBeath
Lumber, and bought some 1/4" five ply Meranti,
*really* nice plywood $36 a sheet.

Had a lot of fun, Teal is such a 'perfect' design,
Bolger's boat designs like this are a form of art.

See:

http://www.hallman.org/bolger/Teal/

...which shows the progress, so far. About 10 hours
into it, not counting the false start with
the shopping.

I think I will head to the 'woods' near
here and nab a 16' baby tree stick for
the mast tomorrow.

I got the first half inch of chine log on,
and the plans call for another half inch
strip, but I am tempted to leave it off,
and use a thinner chine log.

> Well, if there's no exchange option,

Nothing to exchange with, I could return it,
but I got the 1/2" MDO for $22 a sheet
[wholesale], and I will keep it for use later,
perhaps to build some cabinets, or funiture.